Anna Maria Van Schurman
Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
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Alice Muriel Flora Candy
When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.
Eve Logan
In 1977, Evelyn took up an administration post with the Family Practitioner Committee for Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority, and over the next few years quickly rose through the ranks to become the Deputy Registrar.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Minnie Haskins
Poet, novelist and welfare activist
Susan Strange
Susan Strange held the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the London School of Economics 1978-88 and was a world renowned leader of the field.
Sydney Bushell
Sydney Mary Bushell made significant contributions to the field of housing in the 1920s, particularly women’s housing, with the Garden City and Town Planning Association and Women’s Pioneer Housing.
Ursula Hicks
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Dr Vera Anstey
Vera Anstey was a significant presence at the London School of Economics before and after the Second World War.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom